LOS ANGELES, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Whitney Houston will be remembered in a star-studded Grammy televised concert as well the release of a greatest hits album and a television reality series following the singer's family as they cope with her sudden death. Celine Dion, Usher and Jennifer Hudson were the first performers to be announced by The Recording Academy on Thursday for "We Will Always Love You: A Grammy Salute To Whitney Houston" on CBS on Nov....

Vet-focused charity Got Your 6 has teamed with Lifetime Television for an event at this year's Republican National Convention. The two orgs will throw a nonpartisan gala concert featuring Wyclef Jean at the August 29 political confab in Tampa, Fla. Randy Travis was initially slated to perform at the RNC during the Got Your 6 event, but has since dropped out after a recent DUI arrest. Jean has replaced Travis in the lineup. Willie Nelson was...

Vet-focused charity Got Your 6 has teamed with Lifetime Television for an event at this year's Republican National Convention. The two orgs will throw a nonpartisan gala concert featuring Wyclef Jean at the August 29 political confab in Tampa, Fla. Randy Travis was initially slated to perform at the RNC during the Got Your 6 event, but has since dropped out after a recent DUI arrest. Jean has replaced Travis in the lineup. Willie Nelson was...

Episodes of CBS's "Designing Women" and ABC's "China Beach," are among the winners of the 15th annual commendation awards presented by American Women in Radio and Television. Others honored for realistic and affirmative portrayals of women include: a Lifetime Television special on date rape and an ABC "20/20" profile of Chicago's Cook County Jail minister Mother York.

Nathan Leopold, Jr., one of two graduate students convicted of the infamous 1924 thrill killing of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, had been on parole for nearly a year when 20th Century Fox released a film about the historic Chicago trial, starring Orson Welles. Several months after "Compulsion" came out in 1959, Leopold filed a lawsuit claiming the film violated his right to privacy. The Illinois Supreme Court dismissed it in 1970, a year before he died. More than half...

Expanded access: Lifetime Television is expanding its resources to women with a home page on the World Wide Web called Lifetime Online, says Brian Donlon, vice president at Lifetime for New Media, Sports and Public Affairs. Information available to women on Lifetime Online will range from discussions of relationships to child-discipline problems to finding low-fat recipes.The Lifetime Online address is http://www.lifetimetv.com.

The fight for "Project Runway" is fierce, and not in the Christian Siriano sense. Lifetime Television has filed a countersuit against NBC and the Weinstein Co. over the popular fashion reality show, Variety reported. Lifetime wants exclusive rights to "PR" and enforcement of the deal it made with Weinstein Co., which has produced "Runway" for Bravo for the past five seasons. NBC and Bravo sued to block the show's move to Lifetime. In September a judge halted the move to Lifetime until the litigation is...

The fight for "Project Runway" is fierce, and not in the Christian Siriano sense. Lifetime Television has filed a countersuit against NBC and the Weinstein Co. over the popular fashion reality show, Variety reported. Lifetime wants exclusive rights to "PR" and enforcement of the deal it made with Weinstein Co., which has produced "Runway" for Bravo for the past five seasons. NBC and Bravo sued to block the show's move to Lifetime. In September a judge halted the move to Lifetime until the litigation is...

The executive who nurtured the reality shows "Dancing with the Stars," "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" and "The Bachelor" for Walt Disney Co.-owned ABC has scored a Lifetime achievement honor. Andrea Wong is getting the top job at Lifetime, which is co-owned by Disney and Hearst Corp. Of course, Wong also shepherded "Are You Hot? The Search for America's Sexiest People," a crass exercise in superficiality, and "Welcome to the Neighborhood," a show that was preemptively...

Day after day: Lifetime Television, in conjunction with several other organizations, will kick off "Picture What Women Do," its 1994 public-service campaign, on Tuesday, International Women's Day. The campaign wants to capture women's everyday activities by having them submit pictures taken May 17 to Lifetime, says Meredith Wagner, senior vice president for public affairs. "We wanted to raise the awareness of what women do on a daily basis," said Wagner. "The bottom line...

Amid a contract dispute, EchoStar Communications Corp. said it has replaced one Lifetime Television channel on its Dish Network with Oxygen Media. EchoStar discontinued the Lifetime and Lifetime Movie Network channels on Jan. 1 after the two sides failed to agree on programming fees as part of a new contract. EchoStar spokesman Marc Lumpkin said Oxygen will replace the Lifetime Movie Network in the middle-tier package on Dish. Both are considered women-oriented channels....

Timothy Busfield, who plays "thirtysomething's" semi-reformed rapscallion Elliot Weston, will host a cable television documentary examining how divorce affects children. Called "Don`t Divorce the Children," the special airs at 8 p.m. Wednesday on Lifetime Television, and repeats on March 10, 15 and 17. Six divorced families are profiled in the documentary which will be followed by a panel discussion among experts and divorced parents. Busfield was tapped to host because he "brings...

Considering a career in neurosurgery? Or perhaps another health-care job in a hospital setting? Then tune into Lifetime Television's series "Women Docs," which details the lives of 80 female medical practitioners throughout the country. On Saturday at 9 p.m., "Women Docs" takes viewers to Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital and highlights the hectic, high-energy days of four staff M.D.s: neonatologist Robin Steinhorn, oncologist Jamie Von Roenn, neurosurgeon Jayashree...

Sara Gilbert, who plays Darlene on the popular television series "Roseanne," stars opposite Oscar-winning actor Louis Gossett Jr. Tuesday in "Sudie and Simpson" (8 p.m. on Lifetime Television), a poignant drama about the friendship between a poor white girl and a lonely black man in 1943 rural Georgia. She was given the role without auditioning after two of the film's executives simultaneously but separately spotted her one evening while watching the ABC...

Lifted by three strong dramas in its Sunday evening lineup, Lifetime Television moved to the top cable spot in prime time Sunday through Saturday for the first quarter of 2001, Nielsen Media Research reported recently. Lifetime finished the month of March with a record 1.6 million prime-time households tuning in. And March also marked the 20th consecutive month in which ratings grew for the network, a press release said. The ratings coup coincides with the arrival of Carole Black, who took...

Amid a contract dispute, EchoStar Communications Corp. said it has replaced one Lifetime Television channel on its Dish Network with Oxygen Media. EchoStar discontinued the Lifetime and Lifetime Movie Network channels on Jan. 1 after the two sides failed to agree on programming fees as part of a new contract. EchoStar spokesman Marc Lumpkin said Oxygen will replace the Lifetime Movie Network in the middle-tier package on Dish. Both are considered women-oriented channels....

Three of the biggest names in television and publishing said Thursday they will launch early next year a new cable TV network aimed at women. The collaborative TV/Web site plan from cable giant Turner Broadcasting System and magazine publishers Time Inc. and Advance Publications Inc. is further media recognition of the growing and changing attraction of women as a target audience. "Women represent the fastest-growing Internet population and a television audience that remains...

Sites of special interest to women on the World Wide Web are springing up like May flowers. Lifetime Television and its web site, Lifetime Online, have combined with Women's Wire to create Go Vote '96, an effort to address campaign issues from the female perspective and motivate voters. Go Vote '96 can be accessed either through Lifetime Online (http://www.lifetimetv.com) or Women's Wire (http://www.women.com). Jennifer Keitt, the creator of Today's Black Woman, a syndicated radio show and newsletter, has added a...